Vektor H-5

     Originally designed as a police/riot weapon, the H-5 is one of the few pump-actions in the world actually adept at firing pointed bullets.  At first, you may think this rifle is some sort of marketing fluke – a strange cartridge for a pump action rifle, not easy to engineer – but then you think, it’s a riot, the police have been called in to quell the riot and need some serious non-lethal firepower, you don’t want to simply spray rubber bullets all over the place.  You want controlled spot shooting of riot leaders.  That what the H-5 is designed for – controlled use of rubber bullets.

     That’s not to say that the H-5 cannot fire other sorts of 5.56mm ammunition – Vektor is now selling the H-5 as a civilian weapon.  In the civilian market, it is not necessarily the best weapon; the feed group of a pump-action rifle shooting pointed bullets is complicated, can be quirky, and difficult to maintain if you don’t know what you’re doing.  But civilian sales have been enough to keep it on the civilian market – more civilian sales have been made than to police forces.

       The H-5 is a rotating bolt design that comes standard with a scope to ensure accurate shot placement.  It can be had with a thumbhole wooden stock and wooden pump lever or a folding stock with a synthetic pump lever.  The wood-stocked version has a recoil pad on its butt.  The folding stock is a skeletonized side-folder.  22-inch, 18.1 inch, and 13.4-inch barrels lengths are available. The magazines are “safety” magazines – when you insert them, they have to be bolted in with a hex nut and allen key or they will simply fall out again.

     The H-5 has an interesting "feature" -- if you hold the trigger down and pump the slide, it will fire as fast as you can rack the slide.

Weapon

Ammunition

Weight

Magazines*

Price

H-5 (Fixed Stock, 22” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

4.5 kg

5, 10, 12

$1075

H-5 (Fixed Stock, 18.1” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

4.13 kg

5, 10, 12

$1035

H-5 (Fixed Stock, 13.4” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

3.78 kg

5, 10, 12

$987

H-5 (Folding Stock, 22” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

4.5 kg

5, 10, 12

$1020

H-5 (Folding Stock, 18.1” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

4.13 kg

5, 10, 12

$980

H-5 (Folding Stock, 13.4” Barrel)

5.56mm NATO

3.78 kg

5, 10, 12

$932

 

Weapon

ROF

Damage

Pen

Bulk

SS

Burst

Range

H-5 (Fixed Stock, 22”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

6

2

Nil

64

H-5 (Fixed Stock 18.1”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

6

2

Nil

48

H-5 (Fixed Stock 13.4”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

5

2

Nil

30

H-5 (Folding Stock, 22”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

5/6

2

Nil

64

H-5 (Folding Stock 18.1”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

4/6

2

Nil

48

H-5 (Folding Stock 13.4”)

PA [6]

3

1-Nil

3/5

2

Nil

30